The W. Wallace Cleland Award is given to the exhibitor of the best single-frame exhibit displayed at the Society’s Annual Meeting exhibition. The award, created in 2014, honors Cleland, one of the USSS/BIA’s most prolific authors and researchers, particularly in the production and printing of U.S. postage and revenue stamps. Cleland was a three time winner of the Hopkinson Memorial Literature Awards (1986, 2002, 2006) and was honored with the Smithsonian’s Philatelic Achievement Award.
W. Wallace Cleland Award
| Yr. | Winner | Exhibit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bob Rufe | US Special booklet Paper Printings of 1928 | PIPEX |
| 2019 | Dickson Preston | U.S. Army Post Offices in Greenland 1941 - 1945 | Westpex |
| 2018 | * | * | Milcopex |
| 2017 | Greg Shoults | Washington & Franklin Rotary Press Coil Waste 1919-1922 | March Party (OH) |
| 2016 | * | * | World Stamp Show NY2016 |
| 2015 | Nick Lombardi | ''The 3-cent Jackson Stamp of the Series 1902 | Philatelic Show - Boxborough |
| 2014 | Kurt & Joann Lenz | U.S. Test Stamps Related to the B.E.P. (c. 1907-1959) | NOJEX |